Muzzle
"GS: What makes that super high-pitched sound that goes through "Where Boys," beginning at :45?
CORGAN: I used a '74 Strat, commonly known as the "I love My Mom" guitar. That guitar has since been painted baby blue. I used it on the main rhythm of "Muzzle," through the reach setup.
GS: That's a fantastic guitar sound.
CORGAN: Yeah. The guitar is made of a heavier wood so it's got the basic Strat sound but with more bottom, more of a low-fi kind of sound that's real nice. It sounds good for certain songs. I played that guitar on "Bullet," too, because it has a little more "Chunk" on the bottom end.
GS: How is the "Muzzle" verse section played?
CORGAN: Again, I use a lot of 1st-position chords. As far as other electric guitars go, I bought an Epiphone SG from a crack dealer. That's the guitar I play on "An Ode to No One". It has this weird, EMG-type pickups in it, and you get that low-mid, Black Sabbath esque "superchunk" sound. When I was recording the solo to "Fuck You," I kept ending it by throwing the guitar against the amp, just to see what kind of sound it would make, and I broke the screws that hold the pickups in, so they were flopping around and banging against the strings! [laughs]
GS: Was that a useful sound?
CORGAN: No. It don't sound as cool as you'd think. It was just an annoying thud, followed by a high-pitched whine. Not much to get excited about.
1996 - Guitar School
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Corgan points out "Mellon Collie's" "Muzzle" as a joke at his expense. "It was one of the last things I wrote for the album," he recalls. "And by that time, I was really aware of the repetition in terms of theme. ... So when I wrote the lyrics of 'Muzzle', I was thinking, 'People were going to tell me to shut up. Might as well have fun with it myself.'"
Greenville News -1996
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GW: Did you two guys divide the soloing duties?
IHA: Not deliberately. But it kind of came out half and half in the end, I guess. For example, on the song "Muzzle" Billy plays the first solo, and towards the end of the song there's an outro solo that I play. That's just the way it seemed to work best.
1995 - Guitar World